2013 NEH Faculty Bios

Bruce Caldwell is a Research Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century (1982), and of Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (2004). Since 2002 he has served as the General Editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, a multi-volume collection of Hayek’s writings. He is a past president of the History of Economics Society and of the Southern Economic Association. In his spare time he enjoys tennis and golf.
 
 Bilge Erten is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University.  She earned her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010.  Her research focuses on the long-term cycles in commodity prices, the impact of financialization of commodity markets on food security, and the role of capital account regulations as countercyclical policy tools in developing countries.  Her work draws on history of economic thought, macroeconomics of international trade and finance, and political economy of development.

Craufurd Goodwin is James B. Duke professor of economics emeritus at Duke University.  He has been a teacher and adminstrator at Duke since 1962, and has taught both graduate and undergraduate students on courses covering the history of economic thought and policy, macroeconomics, and microeconomics.  In past years, he has also been a visiting professor at Cambridge University and the Australian National University.  He was named a Smuts Fellow at Cambridge University and a Guggenhein Fellow.  He specializes in the history of economic thought and policy.  He has co-authored or edited over one hundred works over the last four decades.  He recently published a chapter on "Art and Culture in the History of Economics," to the Handbook of the Economics of Art and culture and a chapter on Keynes and Bloomsbury to the Cambridge Companion to Keynes.  His latest published works include "The History of Economic Thought": and "Economics and the Study of War" in the Second edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, and "Ecologist Meets Economics: Aldo Leopold" in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.  He has just completed a book manuscript on the economic writings of the American journalist Walter Lippmann.

Professor Goodwin has served as vice provost for research and dean of the graduate school program officer in charge of European and International Affairs at the Ford Foundation, and secretary of the university.  He is past president and distinguished fellow of the History of Economics Society.
  Ryan Hanley is Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University.  His research in the history of political philosophy focuses on the Scottish Enlightenment.  He is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge University Press, 2009), editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (Penguin, 2010), eitor of the forthcoming Adam Smith: A Princeton Guide (Princeton University Press), and current President of the Internatioanl Adam Smith Society.  His recent articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, Review of Politics, History of Political Thought and Journal of the History of Philosophy, among others.  He is also the recipient of Fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Arete Initiative, and is currently at work on a study of love and wisdom in Enlightenment moral and political philosophy.

 

 Thomas C. Leonard is Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, where he is also Lecturer in the Department of Economics. He is a two-time winner of the Richard D. Quandt Prize for outstanding teaching in the Department of Economics. An historian of economics, his recent research, published in History of Political Economy and elsewhere, has focused upon the birth and development of American economics in the Progressive Era. He is completing a book project, In the Name of Progress: Race and Eugenics in American Economics, 1885-1918. His papers and other scholarship can be found at www.princeton.edu/~tleonard.
 
 Steven G. Medema is Professor of Economics, President's Teaching Scholar, and the Director of the University Honors and Leadership Program at the university of Colorado Denver.  He received his B.A. from Calvin College and his PhD from the Michigan State University.  Dr. Medema is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles, including The Hesitant Hand:  Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas (Princeton, 2009) and Economics and the Law:  From Posner to Post Mondernism and Beyond (Princeton, 2006).  He served as Editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought from 1999-2008 and as President of the History of Economics Society in 2009-10.  Dr. Medema's current research project explores the history of the use of the Coase theorem in economics, law and beyond.
Malcolm Rutherford is Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and the leading authority on the history of American institutional economics. He has published widely on this topic in History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Journal of Economic Issues, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Labor History. He is the author of Institutions in Economics: The Old and the new Institutionalism(Cambridge University Press, 1994), and the Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and Social Control (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Professor Rutherford has served as President of the History of Economics Society and the Association for Evolutionary Economics.
 
 Professor Wennerlind specializes in seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe, with a focus on intellectual history and political economy.  He is particularly interested in the historical development of money and credit, as well as attempts to theorize these phenomena.  He recently published Casualties of Credit:  The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720 (Harvard University Press, 2011) and is currently at work on a monograph exploring the changing conceptual nature of scarcity from early modern Aristotelian-influenced thinking to modern neo-classical economics, tentatively titled A History of Scarcity:  Humanity, Nature, and the World of Goods.  In addition to his co-editied volumes David Hume's Political Economy (with Margaret Schabas) and Mercantilism Reimagined:  Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and its Empire (with Phil Stern), Wennerlind's work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, History of Political Economy, and Hume Studies.
E. Roy Weintraub was trained as a mathematician and began his career as a mathematical economist. In the 1980s he reconstructed his research and teaching activities to focus upon the history of the interconnection between mathematics and economics in the twentieth century. That work, in the history of economics, helped shape the understanding of economists and historians: his General Equilibrium Theory (1985), Stabilizing Dynamics (1991), Toward a History of Game Theory (ed.) (1992) and How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (2002) charted the transformation of economics from a historical to a mathematical discipline. In recent years his work has turned more self-consciously historiographic, resulting in edited volumes on The Future of the History of Economics (2002) and Economists Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of Economics (2007).  In 2010 Weintraub was named Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society.